I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me. I look upon notoriety with the same indifference as on the buttons on a man's shirt-front, or the crest on his note-paper.

Personally, I was apalled at the divisions I saw within Star Trek fandom, where people wearing Original Series uniforms were sneered at far worse than I've seen from 'trufans', and the way some media fans sneer at others for watching the wrong shows. Forget 'litfen' versus 'meejafen', the mediafen seem to be their own worst enemies.

[…] Respect for your / Elders was lost right then— / In the pistol whippings, the pimp slaps, cold / Beatdowns and in-home invasions and / [page break] / Mass killings we read about in / The newspapers and on the “Action / News” and on all the subway trains / Fleeing the cities you inhabited.

Formerly their hair was cropped as soon as the oath was taken, and this was a signal for the parents to begin unearthly yells of grief, but now their beloved locks are left unbarbered.